You need that. With the unso he liz its th Everybody Knows that. Youre going to need nine justices up there. I think its going to be very important. Because what theyre doing is a hoax. I think this will end up in the Supreme Court. And i think its very important that we have nine justices. And i think the systems going to go very quickly. Its better if you go before the election because i think this this scam that the democrats are pulling, its a scam, this scam will be before the United StatesSupreme Court. And i think having a 44 situation is not a good situation. This scam is the american election. The president is making it clear that his Supreme Court pick, a lifetime appointment, is not about policy but like most Everything Else with President Trump, its about his own interests and his reelection. The country and the American People be damned. Stacking the courts in order to ensure youre own political survival is what happens in authoritarian regimes. So is vilifying and is you preecing the medsue preecing the media. And the Trump State Department rescinded a 2019 International Women of courage award presented to a finnish journalist after the Trump Administration found social media posts that the journalist made that were critical of trump. Heres another thing trump has taken straight from the authoritarian playbook. When you commit to making sure that there is a peaceful travel of power after the election . Were going to have to see what happens. You know that. Ive been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster. I understand that, but people are rioting. Do you commit to making sure that theres a peaceful transfer of power . If you want to get rid of the ballots and well have a very peaceful there wont be a transfer, frankly, there will be a continuation. Ballots ever out ballots are out of control and you know who knows it better than anyone else . The democrats know it better than anybody else. So we have to be very careful with the ballots. Thats a whole big scam. We want to make sure the election is honest and im not sure that it can be. Purposely creating distrust in democratic elections is something that putin does, not the president of the United States. And yet here we are. And, yes, its bad. The dangers that these types of comments, especially coming from the american president pose to our country and our democracy cannot be understated. One of trumps many former National Security advisers general h. R. Mcmaster said what trump is doing is, quote, something our founders feared. Another exofficial, the four star head of the coast guard endorsing joe biden saying trump is waging an insurgency on our rights with more power being centralized at the executive level. He was part of a group of almost 500 former National Security leaders who signed a letter questioning trumps fitness for command. About his constant claims of mass voter and vote fraud fraud from his political opposition, the fbi director chris ray who trump appointed told the Senate Homeland security leader this week that there is no evidence of a coordinated National Voter fraud effort. Ray also recently testified that his biggest worry on Election Security is americans losing confidence in the legitimacy of the results. That is a trademark of any authoritarian regime and a cornerstone of President Trumps reelection campaign. Joining me now, democratic congresswoman Ayana Presley of massachusetts. Shes a member of both the Congressional Black Caucus and the House Oversight committee. Thank you for being with us. I have to say there are week has given me great pause because it looks like we have crossed a line. And i know weve heard that a lot over the last 3 1 2 years, but this line is the one in which the president doesnt even pretend to speak in favor of a normal democratic process. Now just undermining an election that he is likely to lose to allow him to retain power. This week has also given me pause, but its given me resolve as well. Im not alone in that. As people are casting their ballots in early vote, right now we see unprecedented turnout because people know that Donald Trumps failures, his cruelty, his callousness, is on the ballot. Thats why we need to elect Vice President biden and senator harris. Talk to me about what people should do at this point. Because for all of the frustration and despair and the concern about what donald trump is talking about in the end, american citizens continue to have the vote. So as long as you can till out Donald Trumps nonsense about the ill legit mace cyst election, the work, the resolve that you speak of involves going out and voting and making sure you vote properly and making sure those around you know how to vote properly. Thats right. We, the people, still have the power. And so i need you to exercise that. I need you do two things. Complete your census, and i need you to cast your ballot to vote. And you can go to i will vote. Com to figure out your registration status, to figure out what the early vote options are in your state. But make a plan to vote and then do it. And if you do plan on voting on november 3rd at the polls, come prepared. Bring a Brown Bag Lunch if you need to, bring a chair, make sure that nothing on instructs your ability to cast that ballot, because everything is on the line. And we see that with them putting forward Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee, that everything is on the line. Health care is on the line. Immigrants rights are on the line. My very bodily autonomy is on the line. Our civil rights are on the line. Democracy is on the line. What can you do about the Supreme Court nominee that will come at some point today and the aim is to have her confirmed before the election . Well, let me just say that not only is donald trump and his Gopled Senate willing to honor the final wishes of justice ginsburg, they have contempt for the American People because they are dishonoring what twothirds of the American People want. And that sis a confirmation process after the inauguration. And then insult to injury, trump making good on his word who would want to overturn roe v wade. Instead, he does put forward someone who is antichoice, who is antiimmigrant, and that has been proven in decision time and time again. And so she is unfit. Amy Coney Barrett is unfit, shes unqualified. We deserve a justice who will protect our health care, who understands that every person should be able to make their own decisions about their health. And if we want to start a family. We need a justice who protects our workers and believes in a justice economy and a healthy democracy. And that nominee is not Amy Coney Barrett. But when people say to you what can i do about this, if republicans in the senate insist on ramming this through before an election, something that they said in 2016 is not a fair thing to do, what can what can regular people do about this . Sure. Well, im going to do everything in my power and lobby every smar that i c senator that i can. We have to concede nothing. We have to keep applying pressure. I know these have been a sobering four years, but there are some victories that we have won and we won that with our vigilance. We the people are powerful. Continue to express public outcry, continue to affirm what though 2 thirds americans say, which is that they want a confirmation process after the inauguration of Vice President biden and senator harris. And might i add when it comes to the senate, which has been a roadblock to progress all along, the fact that they have not moved on a comprehensive relief bill in the midst of this pandemic but instead, ali, they have moved on 200 plus federal judges shows that they have contempt for the American People. So keep the pressure up. Cede nothing. There are americans who will be losing more jobs in the coming days and their apartments and their homes. And that is not something the senate is prepared to take up. Thank you for joining us. Joining me now, u. S. Army veteran who everybodied as chief of staff to colin powell. And barbara mcquade, a professor at the university of Michigan Law School and an msnbc legal analyst. Her latest piece in new York Magazine gets at the heart of who congruent stories, ginsburg example shows us how to save our democracy. Thank you to both of you for joining us. Carl, let me start with you, sir. There has been talking, we have heard that theres some people in the pentagon talking informally about what to do if donald trump invokes the insurrection act after the election, if he loses during the time when he is a lame duck president and how the military is supposed to respond to that. You are part of a group that has thought this through, thought through what the transfer of power looks like after the election. Tell me your thoughts please, sir. Your first point, ali, i think the military is going to act in accordance with the constitution. So i dont have deep concern about how the military might act. Hey do have deep concern about now, even though Collin Powell was right when he said trump is a proverbial liar, that all he does is lie, i still take words like and im going to quote this get rid of the ballots and youll have a very peaceful there wont be a transfer. When he makes comments like that, i get really worried that. Sounds like joe stalin who said the ballot count is irrelevant, its who counts the ballots that is critical. Thats vladimir putin. Thats joe stalin. Thats not an american president. And yet it is an american president , this president. Barbara mcquade, give me, please, your legal perspective. I know you have this remarkable ability to add a legal perspective to anything, including a recipe for mack crony and cheese. This is something far more serious. This is the president saying as the colonel said, if you dont have the ballots you wont have a problem, there wont be a transition. I was shocked when i heard that. Ive heard crazy things from donald trump for years. This one was more crazy than normal. I agree with you, ali. I think theres reason to be concerned. One of which is the fact that attorney general william barr has been playing along with this game. Youll hear him repeating these talking points about mailin ballots lacking legitimacy, about being ripe for fraud. When hes asked to document that with any evidence at all, he has none. He says things like common sense and logic tells me that theres fraud when you have mailin ballots. In fact, it is actually the opposite. There have been studies done in places like oregon where theyve had exclusively mailin ballots since the year 2000 and the a. Fraud there is nil. The likelihood of being instruct by lightning is greater than having voter fraud. Its knots one election thats controlled at a national level, its 50 state elections so in each state weve got people and processes in place designed for this very purpose. Vote by mail is not a new thing. Its happened before in every election. So the safeguards that are there will give us confidence that the vote will be accurate. Its the recognition of that vote that i worry about. Yeah, last election more than 20 of people voted by mail or absentee. That number will be up multiple this year. Colonel, one of the issues at play here is the degree to which we saw it in kenosha, wisconsin, where a young man took a gun, ended up shooting two people because he thought he was in service of Donald Trumps call for law and order. Thats part of the problem here, because donald trump is creating an environment for citizen violence in the wake of the november 3rd election. There may be people who infer that they should take up arms. How do we deal with that . I think youve hit on one of the significant concerns that i have, and i think every american should have, that is that donald trump may be a liar, and hes lied about north korea, hes lied about iran, hes lied about venezuela, hes lied about russia, hes lied about germany. He may be a constant liar, but that doesnt mean that some of the things he says arent stoking his base. And particularly those members of his base who own the guns in this country. Thats of some concern. Weve already seen the kind of stereotype of what might happen in portland and other places and kenosha, as youve mentioned. This is a very, very dicey situation that hes creating, and i dont think hes smart enough to realize that he is creating it to the extent that he is. Its very reminiscent of the period from 1850 to 1860 in the United States when the tierney of the minority, slave holders in the south, really ran the United States government. And it ran it with complicity from the north who knew how important slavery was to the economy. Were back in a period where a lot of the things that happened in that very torturous period that led to our civil war seem eerily like whats happening today. And i agree with what was just said about attorney general barr. If i were the speaker of the house nancy pelosi, id start impeachment proceedings against him immediately. Hes no attorney general. Hes not even a good lawyer. Hes a dangerous threat to this country. A point barbaras made several times. We talk about the courts, the military, we talk about ways in which we can protect democracy, but the one message that im hoping to get clear today is that there is a way for every american to participate in this democracy and shrug off the dismissal of the president of the United States, that is to vote. That is today to figure out how to vote. Figure out if youre voting by mail or absentee. What envelope it goes in, triple check and make sure everybody around you knows how to do that. If youre voting at the ballot box, make that plan and be prepared now for it. Dont let them take your vote. Yeah, ali i thought your words to open this segment were powerful comparing our country to other democracies that have seen their demise. But the people still have power and representative presley was inspiring about making sure people know how to get out and vote. We still have that power. I think one of the things that could silence President Trump is a land slide victory for joe biden. If its a close election, thats when it gets dangerous. You know, the election in 2016, he was elected without winning the popular vote and he won in a few swing states by just a sliver. Here in michigan he won by 10,000 votes in a time when voter turnout was far less than it was in 12 2012 or 2008. Making sure people get out and vote is the way to defeat this president. Colonel, last word to you. I agree 100 . Youre going to run into obstacles. I just got my mailin ballots for virginia. Theyre very confusing. At one point on the ballot instruction it says you have to have a witness and another point it says you dont. So i said the hell with it, im not mailing it in, im going down the street to the library, im filling out the ballot, which i can do and im dropping it in the dropbox. However you vote, vote because what was just said, an overwhelming Electoral College and popular vote victory for biden is the best way to stop this tyrant. Thank you to both of you. Lawrence wilkerson, and brash mcquade, former United States attorney in michigan and an msnbc legal analysts. President trump is set to announce Amy Coney Barrett as the Supreme Court nominee. If confirmed, the reliably conservative judge would replace one of the most outspoken liberals. What you need to know about Amy Coney Barrett next. Ls. What you need to know about Amy Coney Barrett next. No tomatoes. [hard a] tonight. Ill be eating four cheese tortellini with extra tomatoes. [full emphasis on the soft a] so its come to this . [doorbell chimes] thank you. [doorbell chimes] bravo. Careful, hamill. Daddys not here to save you. Oh i am my daddy. Wait, what . What are you talking about . I may not be able to tell time, but i know what time it is. [whispering] its Grilled Cheese oclock. 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